On July 5, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Russian Ambassador Igor Popov, French Ambassador Stefan Visconti, and US Ambassador Richard Hoagland made a statement in connection with the information received by them and related to "the resumption of violence late in the evening on July 4 in the village of Alkhanly of the Fizuli District, resulting in casualties, including among civilians."

"The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group urgently call on the parties to the conflict to stop the hostilities. The violence can just generate further violence and nothing else. The only responsible and humane way to resolve this long-standing conflict is for the parties to return to the table of deliberate negotiations," notes the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group in their statement.

The co-chairs have also expressed their condolences to family members of the victims.

In its turn, the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan has announced the launch of the investigation into the criminal case on the fact of shelling in the village of Alkhanly.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

The bankruptcy manager has assured that in October, after the sale of underground courses, money will appear to pay off the wage debts to former workers of the "Kingcoal" Company, Tatiana Avachova, a member of the protest group, said at a picket in Gukovo. The picketers noted that this was not the first such promise.

The name of the paratrooper, Mikhail Bezelt, who, according to the official data, blew himself up on a mine in Chechnya, has appeared in the list of Donbass casualties. On the whole, the version of the contractor's death during exercises looks plausible, but it's strange that the exercise area had not been inspected by sappers, the law enforcers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

The detention of a witch in Chechnya and the report shown by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company), where she was criticized by a doctor from the Centre for Islamic Medicine, was treated by some social networks commentators as a return to Middle Ages. Their opponents have supported the persecution of sorcerers in the republic.